When booting up a newly installed Kanotix 2006-01-RC4 system with an up-to-minute dist-upgrade, the graphical interface "sometimes" does not fire up, but instead a non-graphical log-in prompt appears, at which point I can naturally log in and continue a session in a non-graphical mode.

How can I try to make KDE or the graphical log-in screen start from that point? In other words, after login, what is or are the commands to start an x-session?

In case I don't log in at this point and after a couple of minutes, the system enters runlevel 5 and attempts to start various services, such as printing, battery stuff, fan processor etc., with the last being the following:

My system is set to automatically log in to a user account and perhaps this is partly the cause of the kde startup failure, although this has never been a problem with my previous Kanotix installs.

As I mentioned, the start-up mysteriously fails only sometimes, as in most instances the graphical interface fires up as normal.

Also, in KDE I cannot click "K" => "End current session" and expect a GUI log-in screen. There will either be a non-graphical login prompt or just a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top-left corner, which I can't type anything into. Only rebooting by hitting the Strg+Alt+Entf keys are possible here.

Does anyone have any idea what could be the cause of this occasional kdm/kde login failure?

Maybe some services did not exit cleanly in a previous session, however, I usually always switch the system off as it should. No hitting reset etc.

Change CHVT_TTY value in file /etc/default/splashy to auto, 7 or to the right session for your PC.

So, this

Code:
# Splashy will switch to this TTY after finishing at boot
# note that if X is running, tty7 will be used automatically
CHVT_TTY=1

should be:

Code:
# Splashy will switch to this TTY after finishing at boot
# note that if X is running, tty7 will be used automatically
CHVT_TTY=7

Dud

Titel:Verfasst am: 30.12.2006, 15:46 Uhr

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I was having the same problem. This fixed it.
Thanks a bunch.

tuxedo

Titel:Verfasst am: 30.12.2006, 15:59 Uhr

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Thanks for that insider tip! Instead I set this line to: ...

ENABLE=0

... which desplashed it completely! Result: No boot image or log-in/kdm failure after having tested rebooting for a tenth time. It should be the same as setting CHVT_TTY=7 minus the image (in my case a glowy pinguin). It makes me wonder what useful purpose Splashy serves, other than displaying the image and a progress bar during start-up and shut-down?

When in KDE on 2006-01-RC4 the following does not work from me either:
"K" => "Switch User" => "Start New Session" (as root)
OR
"K" => "Log Out..." to reach the (kdm or xdm?) log-in manager again.

Although the 2006-01-RC4+dist-upgrade must be as new as new can be I think I might revert to 2005-04, which in any case is probably more feature packed than most other Linux distros.

I have installed the latest Kanotix Excalibur, but when I boot, it does not boot into a Graphical Interface, but instead a non-graphical log-in prompt appears, at which point I can naturally log in and continue a session in a non-graphical mode.

How can I try to make KDE or the graphical log-in screen start from that point? In other words, after login, what is or are the commands to start an x-session?